One Delisle Skyscraper, Canada
US architecture firm Studio Gang has unveiled its first project for Canada: the One Delisle skyscraper made up of stretched hexagonal volumes topped with terraces and planters. The plans are for a mixed-use development, with shops at ground level and residences above. Aiming not to shadow the street level, Studio Gang has designed a fragmented composition, creating setbacks that allow light to filter down.
It comprises eight-storey-high volumes that are each shaped like a distorted hexagon, and piled together to resemble a stretched honeycomb. The volumes would taper outwards towards the top as a way to shade the residences, which would be fronted by glazing. Some volumes would also be fronted with covered terraces to be used in the shoulder seasons, before the city's much colder winter. The geometry of the facade, and the self-shading it provides, allows each living space to stay cool in summer, while also optimising winter light.
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